Tea For Terror

Tea For Terror Episode 30: Seconds (1966) Featuring Jez Conolly

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Jez Conolly, fins themselves ‘upgraded’ by the mysterious company to end up rubbing shoulders with a deeply troubled Rock Hudson’. Together they explore John Frankenhiemer’s existential horror, Seconds (1966), a weird, disturbing and utterly brilliant American chiller. Devastatingly bleak and completely unmissable. “This may hurt a little”

Tea For Terror Episode 29: Jacob's Ladder (1990) Featuring Tim Dry

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Tim Dry (Xtro, Return of the Jedi) hover between life and death to explore the nightmarish world presented in Jacob’s Ladder (1990). Directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Tim Robbins, this odd psychological thriller is as strange as it is disturbing “…according to this, you’re already dead” You have been warned.

Tea For Terror Episode 28: A Tod Slaughter Special with We Belong Dead's Darrell Buxton

On this episode, the very first ‘Special’, host Andrew Graves and returning guest Darrell Buxton, take a long hard look at the life and films of Mr Murder himself Tod Slaughter. Before the rise of Hammer, Cushing and Lee etc. we had this quintessentially unrepentant rogue, arguably Britain’s first screen monster. His movies – usually cinematic adaptations of popular theatrical productions of the day, were beautifully crafted melodramas tainted with an irresistibly perverse brand of gothic horror. From Maria Marten to Crimes at the Dark House, Tod Slaughter was the undoubted figurehead of an often-forgotten enclave of 1930s, UK cinema. So, if you dare, join your intrepid guides as they enter this heightened, highly entertaining world of over-the-top villainy and rum goings on.

Tea For Terror Episode 27: The 'Burbs (1989) Featuring Emma Dark

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Emma Dark move into a new neighbourhood and immediately find themselves at odds with the paranoid residents. Together, they take solace by re-watching The ‘Burbs (1989), Joe Dante’s superb satire on American suburbia.

Tea For Terror Episode 26: Psycho (1960) Featuring Barbie Wilde

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Barbie Wilde (Hellbound: Hellraiser II) find themselves staying in an out of the way motel, where the manager seems to have an unhealthy fixation with dead birds and holes in bathroom walls. Join them as they avoid the shower and pick apart Hitchcock’s unquestionable classic Psycho (1960)

Tea For Terror Episode 25: Elvira Mistress of the Dark (1988) Featuring James Whittington

On this episode, host Andrew Graves once again comes face to face with NYX Channel rep, James Whittington. Together they discuss comedy horror, 80s movies and Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988).

Tea For Terror Episode 24: Ring (1998) Featuring Erika Bean

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Erika Bean try not to get killed after they accidentally watch a dodgy video copy of this week’s film of choice, Hideo Nakata’s Ring (1998). This spooky Japanese horror from the closing moments of the 20th century, still casts its shadow of hordes of American imitators and stands tall among the very best of 1990s horror flicks. You have been warned. 

Tea For Terror Episode 23: Apaches (1977) Featuring Robert Shearman

On this episode, host Andrew Graves and guest Robert Shearman inadvisably go out playing in the muddy hell of a working farm of the mid 1970s, where children routinely fall foul of rat poison, falling iron gates and cow shit stinking slurry pits. Together they explore the nasty world of the British public information film Apaches (1977). Bleak, unpleasant and irresistibly watchable, this John Mackenzie short is a thing to behold. You have been warned, kids.